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Okay, now that I have a good base to work with, I would be curious if I can remove the following items from the forum page:
1) The very bottom box below that starts with "Your Timezone" and then goes to show Most Users online, currently online, down to the names of the administrators. (Including the RSS feed button at the top of the box.)
2) At the very top, remove the "Members" and "Logout" button (I will have this in the sidebar separately).
3) Remove the drop-down "New/Recently Updated Topics".
4) And Finally, how to get the breadcrumbs to look like this forum where I am posting now (nice kind of arrows) rather than the twisty arrows. (Perhaps this is a SP theme?)
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Sorry, one more thing. Our community is not that much into RSS. How to take away those RSS buttons ("Group RSS" and "All RSS")?
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almost all display elements are controlled by your sp theme.... to add, remove or move items, just edit your sp theme and have at it...
we do recommend you not edit our themes or you will changes on updates... so make one of ours into your own... see: http://codex.simple-press.com/.....g-a-theme/
you just need to edit the template file (works just like wp theme template files) to edit... stats are in spFoot.php, others you mention in spHead.php...
for the breadcrumbs, search these forums... there are several tutorials that walk you through how to do it... its a combination of graphics and css...
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Mr. Papa,
Okay, well, I've created my own theme. Simple enough. However, I have never edited template files before, even in WordPress. Is there some kind of WYSIWYG editing program? Or, if you could let me know what lines of code to change in the php files to get the results I'm hoping for (mentioned in the original post above), that would be great.
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You can not use WYSIWYG editors really on code files. They must be edited as plain text. Under the SP Themes menu there is a theme editor page similar to the WP theme and plugin editors.
I would suggest that you do this - and seriously - it is not really that hard to do. Open the front page of the forum in a tab and in another tab edit the spHead.php file in the /templates folder of your SP theme. Take a look at the function display names working down from the top and you will start to see that they very much correspond to what tou see displayed on your forum. The names of the function try - mostly - to describe the element they display. To stop an element being displayed just comment it out. You can do that by putting a hash - # - at the start of the line of code.
So the top part of the display is the spHead.php template and the bottom spFoot.php which are common to all views. Start with those. if you are just commenting out then you can not really do any damage as you can always uncomment and re-save it.
And don't be afraid.
A little common sense and you should be able to identify what each of the display functions does when comparing it to the actual display.
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Very good way to start. Didn't think about the # to change it to a comment. I'll give it my best shot. If I still get stuck, I'll let you know.
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Of course we will be happy to advise but give it a shot....
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Well, I was able to take off the bottom footer stuff, but now my sidebar has "slide" all the way down the page. I've tried adding back lines one-by-one, but a bit stumped. Any help?
Here's where I've gotten to....
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